Seventieth Year

A celebration of reaching three score years and ten and still going strong

Seventieth Year

my seventieth year

under the sky

again here

in existence...

on top of the

cliff where gulls lament

across sea vast as thought...

horizon gently

beckons to be alive

differently...

tremulous times

range before us

as a predatory army

yet...i can look

up...even behind

cloud there is light...

George Coombs

Author's Note

I do things to help people in prison and this portrait of me was done from a photograph by one of "my" prisoners. This particular man, though of Finnish extraction had lived in australia for many years hence the aboriginal dots influence

Reviews

[Annette Pisano-Higley]

I am so impressed by your work in prisons George. Must be very rewarding for you to help the inmates. I laud you on your 70th year! I will be there in 4, God willing. Love the serenity, peace hope and lovely natural imagery here-"horizon gently beckons to be alive"- life renews, hope renews- "even beyond cloud there is light"- amen. Blessings.

[George Coombs]

Thankyou so much Annette